Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 2:31 PM CDT for Lee County, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1997, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 3:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ecru, MS | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Jun 16, 2:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Saltillo, MS | Some trees and power lines were knocked down in Saltillo and Verona. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 161933 RRA SVRMEM MSC081-115-162020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 231 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 320 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...LEE COUNTY ...EASTERN PONTOTOC COUNTY AT 229 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM BALDWYN TO SALTILLO TO FURRS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS THROUGH TUPELO AND VERONA BY 300 PM. .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... rDESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Union | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Union | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 17 min |
| Jun 16, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 31 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.